Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Alternative spelling: Geniohyidae
Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil Hyracoidea of the Fayum, Egypt, with description of several new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56:253-350
Parent taxon: Pliohyracidae according to N. Court and M. Mahboubi 1993
See also Matsumoto 1926, Pickford 2004, Prothero and Schoch 1989, Rasmussen and GutiƩrrez 2010 and Tsujikawa and Pickford 2006
Sister taxa: Hengduanshanhyrax, Kvabebihyrax, Megalohyrax, Meroehyrax, Pachyhyrax, Parapliohyrax, Pliohyracinae, Pliohyrax, Postschizotherium, Saghatheriinae, Selenohyrax, Sogdohyrax
Subtaxa: Brachyhyrax Geniohyus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Kenya (2 collections), Uganda (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (4), Kenya (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence